a primary verb; to bind (in various applications, literally or figuratively):—bind, be in bonds, knit, tie, wind. See also G1163, G1189.
Outline
- to bind tie, fasten
- to bind, fasten with chains, to throw into chains
- metaph.
- Satan is said to bind a woman bent together by means of a demon, as his messenger, taking possession of the woman and preventing her from standing upright
- to bind, put under obligation, of the law, duty etc.
- to be bound to one, a wife, a husband
- to forbid, prohibit, declare to be illicit